Athletics Quotes - Page 6

• Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Vanguard

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• The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Funny, Whirlwind

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• He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins

  Des Lynam

  Inspirational, Funny, Records

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• Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Colour

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• I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Score, Grew

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

  Hope Solo

  Way, Term, Clear

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• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  Daley Thompson

  Motivation, Heart, Thinking

  Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

  Herschel Walker

  Athlete, Kids, Littles

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• Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Pageantry, Emotion, Wonderful

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• The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Littles

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• She hasn't run faster than herself before

  Zola Budd

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Discipline, Way

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• Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

  Frank Robinson

  Basketball, Practice, Trying

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• The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Hockey, Self

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Athlete, Thinking

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• We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Integrity, Quality, World

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• If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

  Tony Jarrett

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

  Percy Cerutty

  Goal, Achievement, Training

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Art, Fighting

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• In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Swimming, Race, Opposites

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